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• accumulator: n. 1. Archaic term for a register. On-line use of it as a synonym for `register' is a fairly reliable indication that the user has been around for quite a while and/or that the architecture under discussion is quite old.
  The term in full is almost never used of microprocessor registers, for example, though symbolic names for arithmetic registers beginning in `A' derive from historical use of the term `accumulator' (and not, actually, from `arithmetic')....
• metasyntactic variable n. A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion.
  The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything....
• moby /moh'bee/ [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago.
  Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle')....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• flat: adj. 1. Lacking any complex internal structure.
  That {bitty box} has only a flat filesystem, not a hierarchical one....
• micro-: pref. 1. Very small; this is the root of its use as a quantifier prefix.
  2. A quantifier prefix, calling for multiplication by 10^(-6) (see {{quantifiers}})....
• fence: n. 1. A sequence of one or more distinguished ({out-of-band}) characters (or other data items)
  used to delimit a piece of data intended to be treated as a unit (the computer-science literature calls this a `sentinel')....
• andom adj. 1. Unpredictable (closest to mathematical definition)
  weird. "The system's been behaving pretty randomly....
• bboard: /bee'bord/ [contraction of `bulletin board'] n.
  1. Any electronic bulletin board; esp. used of {BBS} systems running on personal micros, less frequently of a USENET {newsgroup} (in fact, use of this term for a newsgroup generally marks one either as a {newbie} fresh in from the BBS world or as a real old-timer predating USENET)....